## Metadata * Author: [[Julia Boyd]] * ASIN: B077J69R2Z * ISBN: 1681777827 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077J69R2Z ## Highlights Foreigners were lectured incessantly on how only Germany stood between Europe and the Red hordes poised to sweep across the continent and destroy civilisation. — location: [127](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=127) ^ref-13921 --- The Communists torture you to death if you are not a worker and Nazis torture you to death if you are not a German. Aristocrats are inclined to prefer Nazis while Jews prefer Bolshies.’ — location: [133](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=133) ^ref-57350 --- At the outbreak of war around 8 million Americans had German parents or grandparents. — location: [231](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=231) ^ref-15221 --- Spartacist uprising — location: [294](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=294) ^ref-43478 --- Because the Allies wanted to keep an arm lock on the Germans until the peace treaty was signed, the blockade imposed since 1914 remained rigorously in place — location: [317](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=317) ^ref-2198 --- ‘Now we must drill hatred into our children from their earliest age, — location: [386](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=386) ^ref-9175 --- In fact, Hitler might even be worth encouraging since he wanted to claim independence for Bavaria, which might lead to the reinstatement of the Wittelsbach monarchy and possibly even the break-up of the German Reich. — location: [576](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=576) ^ref-2419 --- Although the putsch had failed, Hitler’s subsequent trial attracted huge publicity, providing him with a perfect opportunity to present his views to the nation. — location: [602](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=602) ^ref-4090 --- only ten years after the Armistice Germany could claim to be the world’s second-greatest industrial power. — location: [640](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=640) ^ref-31613 --- ‘I’m looking for my homeland and I’ve come to find out if this is it.’18 — location: [688](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=688) ^ref-24534 --- A portrait of Stresemann by Augustus John hangs in the Knox-Albright Gallery at Buffalo, New York. — location: [861](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=861) ^ref-11370 --- [Where they burn books, they will end by burning people].’ — location: [1594](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=1594) ^ref-49899 --- the childhood of the modern world.’ — location: [2022](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=2022) ^ref-57737 --- One of them, Michael King Sr, was so inspired by his visit to Germany – and in particular by the reforming example of Martin Luther – that on returning to Atlanta he changed both his and his son’s name to Martin Luther King. — location: [2085](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=2085) ^ref-49182 --- No one did that better than Leni Riefenstahl, whose film of the 1934 rally, Triumph of the Will, is arguably the most famous documentary ever made. — location: [2151](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=2151) ^ref-19675 --- Her family hated Hitler, dreaded him beginning another world war and despised the idea of a master race, ‘but the exchange rate was good’. — location: [2437](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=2437) ^ref-15902 --- how much blonder the nation had become since he was last there. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934 — location: [2467](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=2467) ^ref-21173 --- Hamsun won the Nobel Prize in 1920 for Growth of the Soil, — location: [2816](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=2816) ^ref-19533 --- ‘I Have a Thing to Tell You’ was published in the New Republic a few months after he returned to America. — location: [2884](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=2884) ^ref-26689 --- marathon runner Tarzan Brown, a Narragansett Indian from Maine, — location: [3371](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=3371) ^ref-26295 --- Archie Williams, the African-American 400 metres gold-medallist, made plain the underlying point in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. — location: [3422](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=3422) ^ref-14505 --- Yeats-Brown’s autobiography, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1930), had been made into a Hollywood movie (starring Gary Cooper) — location: [3997](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=3997) ^ref-45363 --- Germans are born Socialists,’ he observed, ‘probably the only ones in the world.’ — location: [4241](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=4241) ^ref-48806 --- Wilhelm Gustloff after the Swiss Nazi leader, assassinated in 1936. It was sunk by a Soviet submarine in 1945. Some 9,400 Germans perished, making it the largest loss of life in a single ship in history. — location: [4339](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=4339) ^ref-34158 --- His book Ich war dabei, 20 Jahre Nationalsozialismus 1923–43 [I Was There, 20 Years of National Socialism] is a compelling read. — location: [4552](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=4552) ^ref-5186 --- On another occasion, a retired professor of physics at Bonn University made plain to Clark his strong disapproval of the recent pogrom but asked not to be quoted. He was convinced that Hitler had nothing to do with it. Had the Führer known about it beforehand, he would never have allowed it to happen. ‘This was the first time I realised’, noted Clark, ‘that the person of Hitler was sacrosanct. He was never connected in any way with instances that were doubtful or likely to prove unpopular. It was always Göring or Goebbels. — location: [4658](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=4658) ^ref-35474 --- Hitler’s reputation is unblemished and for the normal German there is a halo of infallibility around his head.’ — location: [4662](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=4662) ^ref-23161 --- Dymphna Lodewyckx set off from Bonn to visit Munich where, — location: [4791](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B077J69R2Z&location=4791) ^ref-59845 ---